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Celebrities And Their Families Join PAW Patrol At BAFTA | Nick Jr. UK

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Celebrities, including Imogen Thomas, Michelle Heaton, Konnie Huq, Adele Silva, JB Gill, Jamine Harman and James Bye attended a very special preview screening of Nick Jr. UK's brand-new PAW Patrol episode, "Mission PAW: Quest for the Crown" at BAFTA in London on Saturday 30th September, 2017!


Over 200 attendees watched the special presentation of the episode, held at Princess Anne Theatre, 195 Piccadilly in St. James's, which sees Chase and the rest of the PAW Patrol travel to Barkingburg to keep an eye on the royal crown. Following the screening, fans got the chance to ask Hayden Hunter, the 17-year-old actor who provides the voice of Chase questions about the episode and his role. Eight lucky kids were also given special PAW Patrol goody bags for answering questions on the series. Kemi Majek, presenter on Channel 5’s Milkshake! strand where PAW Patrol also airs, served as MC at the event. Costume characters of Chase and Marshall were also on site to welcome guests and meet and greet fans.


The brand-new PAW Patrol special, "Mission PAW: Quest for the Crown", the first of three episodes this season that follows the heroic pack of pups as they are called on to participate in rescue missions in the kingdom of Barkingburg where a mischievous little pup Sweetie schemes to become Queen, premiered today, Monday 2nd October 2017 at 5:00pm, along with part two, "Royally Spooked!" at 5:30pm on Nick Jr. UK & Ireland. In "Mission PAW: Royally Spooked!", the Princess thinks she's seen a ghost and the Paw Patrol need to get to the bottom of it!


Fans can catch encores of both episodes on:

"Mission PAW: Quest for the Crown"

Tuesday 3rd October 2017 at 4:00am, 7:30am and 5:00pm;
Thursday 5th October 2017 at 5:30pm;
Saturday 7th October 2017 at 5:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday 8th October 2017 at 7:30am.

"Mission PAW: Royally Spooked!"

Tuesday 3rd October 2017 at 4:30am, 7:30pm;
Wednesday 4th October 2017 at 7:30am and 5:30pm;
Friday 6th October 2017 at 7:30am, 5:00pm, 7:30pm;
Sunday 8th October 2017 at 9:45am, 5:30pm

Fans can tune into more brand-new PAWsome episodes of PAW Patrol weekdays from 5:00pm from Monday 9th October 2017 on Nick Jr. UK & Ireland.

Produced by Spin Master Entertainment for Nickelodeon and Nick Jr., PAW Patrol has become a pre-school phenomenon following its launch in 2013. The show follows a pack of six heroic rescue pups – Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, Zuma and Skye - who are led by a tech-savvy 10-year-old boy named Ryder. Together they work hard to protect the Adventure Bay community. Each pup has a unique skill set and a house that turns into a vehicle specific to their personality. Chase is an athletic police pup, Marshall is a spirited fire truck pup, Rocky is an enthusiastic recycling pup, Rubble is a gruff, but loveable construction digger pup, Zuma is a playful, water-loving pup and Skye is a fearless, smart helicopter pup. Ryder has rescued all six pups and leads them on their missions.

The series features a curriculum that focuses on teamwork and problem-solving and airs daily on Nick Jr.

Where every day’s an adventure, Nick Jr. is a top-performing commercial pre-school entertainment brand in cable and satellite homes. Launched in 1999 as the world's first channel dedicated to pre-school children, Nick Jr.’s programming includes beloved shows PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Peppa Pig and Digby Dragon. Online, clips, games, exclusive activities and downloads are all available at nickjr.co.uk Viewers also have the opportunity to catch up with the schedule through Nick Jr. +1. Nick Jr. is available on Sky 615, Virgin 715, through BT Vision and TalkTalk channel 318.

The Nickelodeon Network is a top-performing commercial kids TV network in the UK and Ireland with Nickelodeon channels available in over 13 million cable and satellite homes. Having launched in 1993 Nickelodeon UK comprises seven dedicated entertainment channels for kids aged 4-15 and their families, and is a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks and BSkyB.

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The Entertainer Partners With Merchmaker To Launch On-Demand Merchandise Store

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U.K. retailer The Entertainer has partnered with Merchmaker.com, an on-demand provider of officially licensed brand merchandise, to launch a new online store featuring a host of customisation options for consumers!


The new 'Create Your Own' website (CreateYourOwn.TheToyShop.com) will expand The Entertainer’s existing product range and will provide access to Merchmaker and its partner network’s portfolio of licensed merchandise. Highlights form the new website include customisable apparel, accessories and homewares for brands such as Nickelodeon's Paw Patrol, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, Blaze and the Monster Machines and JoJo Siwa, Saban's Power Rangers, Marvel, Thunderbirds Are Go, LEGO, Star Wars, Beauty and the Beast, Spider-Man, Frozen and WWE, among others.

The initiative has been launched in the wake of research that indicates that 36 per cent of consumers are interested in personalised products or services.


Through the partnership, customers can select from a range of designs, logos, patterns, placements and colours as well as add text to products such as children’s names.

"This offers an exciting personalised shopping experience and takes the gifting of officially branded products to a whole new level," read a release from Merchmaker.

‘The partnership gives more choice and control to the consumers, whether for items purchased for themselves or as a gift.’

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with The Entertainer on what is a unique and exciting venture for all involved,” says Charlotte Clisby, chief commercial officer, The Evode Group. “The print-on-demand and personalisation business is growing significantly across the globe and The Entertainer will be at the forefront of this in the U.K.”

The Entertainer's 'Create Your Own' website, CreateYourOwn.TheToyShop.com, is now live.

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WIN A Trip To Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Punta Cana With Toys"R"Us New "Play Chaser" AR App

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Toys“R”Us are clearly all about bringing their stores to life and making them a place for kids to play. In fact, it’s in their DNA and new mission to set play free…aka making sure kids (and adults) make time for unstructured play. Toys“R”Us also know their customers want more than just a place to shop. They want something different, like experiences and toys out of the box.


One cool, techy way the toy retailer is making it happen now is…AR! That’s augmented reality for those not in the know. Specifically, Play Chaser, Toys“R”Us's new, FREE-to-PLAY AR app for smartphones and tablets that virtually brings Toys“R”Us stores to life!

How does it work? Developed in partnership with PlayFusion, Play Chaser uses PlayFusion’s proprietary computer vision technology to activate different AR games and play experiences on your smart device. To unlock the experiences, simply download the app (in the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon Appstore) and scan the many different Play Chaser signs featured on Toys“R”Us shelves.


The play experiences are fun and interactive – from a virtual basketball hoop that kids can shoot at solo or alongside friends in-store, to a baby nursery where they can select a unique, digital You & Me doll, take it home and care for it (think: changing diapers, feeding and bath time!). There’s even a virtual Geoffrey the Giraffe to welcome customers to the store, explain the app and send kids on their quest for in-store play. Another cool feature? Some games have leaderboards that show where players rank amongst each other in their local store and nationally.

Check out the video below to see the app in action before playing in-store! To download the video, Play Chaser logo and screenshots, click here.



Happy parent alert! The app is completely FREE! Not only to download, but little ones won’t be able to make “accidental” in-app purchases and won’t be subject to pesky advertisements. The in-app currency is stars (like those on Geoffrey) and kids can earn and spend them by completing different quests or games – all without using your hard-earned dollars.


When is this live, you ask? Starting today, Toys“R”Us are testing Play Chaser in 23 stores in the U.S. (keep scrolling for the list)! Don’t worry, it’s rolling out to all Toys“R”Us stores nationwide on Saturday, October 21, including Toys“R”Us' Times Square holiday shop.*

Play Chaser is available to download now, but to celebrate the apps' nationwide launch, customers who download the app between Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 28 will eligible to enter Toys“R”Us's official Play Chaser Sweepstakes. No this isn’t just for a few winners – 2,000 entrants will receive a $25 Toys“R”Us gift card, with one winning a grand prize trip for four to the Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Punta Cana! #forrealwinning


You can check out the stores Toys“R”Us are testing Play Chaser in now (list below), but don’t forget to start playing at all stores nationwide starting Saturday, October 21!

Toys“R”Us Allen – 170 E. Stacy Road, Allen, TX
Toys“R”Us Yonkers – 1000 Central Park Ave, Yonkers, NY
Toys“R”Us Amherst – 3030 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, NY
Toys“R”Us Cary – 201 Crossroad Boulevard, Cary, NC
Toys“R”Us Greece – 1530-1550 Ridge Road West, Rochester, NY
Toys“R”Us Henrietta – 654 Hylan Avenue, Henrietta, NY
Toys“R”Us Lincoln – 5220 N. 27th Street, Lincoln, NE
Toys“R”Us Rockford – 6449 E. State, Rockford, IL
Toys“R”Us E. San Jose – 2179 Monterey Road, San Jose, CA
Toys“R”Us Elk Grove – 8507 Bond Road, Elk Grove, CA
Toys“R”Us Times Square – 1466 Broadway, New York, NY
Toys“R”Us Secaucus – 3 Mill Creek Drive, Secaucus, NJ
Toys“R”Us Elizabeth-KidsWorld – 900 Ikea Drive, Elizabeth, NJ
Toys“R”Us Paramus II – 634 Rt. 17 North (at Ridgewood Ave), Paramus, NJ
Toys“R”Us Totowa – 445 US-46, Totowa, NJ
Toys“R”Us Wayne – 7 Wayne Hills Mall, Wayne, NJ
Toys“R”Us Citrus Park – 12845 Citrus Plaza Drive, Tampa, FL
Toys“R”Us Brandon – 330 Brandon Town Center Drive, Brandon, FL
Toys“R”Us Lakeland – 3770 US-98 North, Lakeland, FL
Toys“R”Us Raleigh – 7810 Poyner Pond Circle, North Raleigh, NC
Toys“R”Us Durham – 3330 Westgate Drive, Durham, NC
Toys“R”Us Long Island City – 3540 48th Street, Long Island City, NY
Toys“R”Us Flatbush – 2875 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush, NY

*Excludes TRU Express & Outlet locations


While the AR experience was being developed months before the company filed for Chapter 11 protection to deal with $5 billion in long-term debt, efforts to make the retailer's roughly 1,600 stores more interactive will be key to the company's turnaround, Toys“R”Us CEO Dave Brandon told USA Today, adding "It's going to transform the experience of coming into a Toys R Us bricks and mortar store and turn it into something that’s quite different and a lot more fun. [...] We believe that’s going to drive a lot more traffic into our stores which will ultimately put us in a position where we can be more successful at growing our sales and our company."

Next Up? Playrooms

In addition to their brand-new AR app, Toys R Us plans to open playrooms at 42 stores where children can try out games and gadgets, and toy demonstrators will be on standby.

Brandon says that he doesn't believe that “any one of these programs that we're both testing and rolling out is a silver bullet . . . that’s going to dramatically change trends."

But he added, "bringing our stores to life and creating engaging experiences for our customers is a business strategy . . . That strategy was in place before we filed to restructure the company, and it will be one that will continue with increasing amounts of investment as we move forward."

Original source: No Assembly Required - The Official Toys“R”Us blog; H/T: VRFocus.
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It's MoTV – Ugly Faces | Nickelodeon Deutschland

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Immer schön sein, ist doch langweilig. Mo & Co. zeigen euch, wie es auch anders geht.



Wer nicht solange warten kann – hier gibt es noch mehr Spotlight Videos: http://www.nick.de/spotlight

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Nickelodeon France To Premiere New Episodes Of "SpongeBob SquarePants" From Saturday 14th October 2017 At 10:25

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Bob l'éponge | Épisodes inédits à partir du samedi 14 octobre | NICKELODEON



Retrouve les épisodes inédits de Bob l'épongeà partir du samedi 14 octobre à 10h25 (11h25 +1) sur NICKELODEON !

Retrouve plein de vidéos de Bob l'éponge sur NICKELODEON.fr !

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HallowNick | Trailer | Nickelodeon Latinoamérica

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This October, tune into HALLOWNICK for spooktacular Halloween episodes of all your favourite Nickelodeon shows, including School of Rock, The Thundermans, Harvey Beaks and ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks (Alvinnn y las ardillas), weekdays from 5:30pm COL/6:30pm VEN/7:30pm CHI, only on Nickelodeon Latin America (Latinoamérica)!:



Lunes a viernes

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Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn | Invitation | To Be Invited Or Not To Be | Nickelodeon UK

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Nicky (Aidan Gallagher), Ricky (Casey Simpson) and Dawn (Lizzy Greene) get an invitation that they can't turn down, even though it means leaving their brother behind in this quad-tastic video clip from Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn episode "To Be Invited or Not to Be", guest starring School of Rock star Breanna Yde!



Catch brand-new episodes of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawnall this week at 4:30pm on Nickelodeon UK & Ireland!

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Kuu Kuu Harajuku | Draw and Color Me Kawaii Style | 24/7

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Try your hand at these super cute kawaii drawings!:



Watch Kuu Kuu Harajuku on Nick Jr. (USA) and Nickelodeon (Greece)!

For more Kuu Kuu Harajuku be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on exclusive clips, videos and online content.

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Kuu Kuu Harajuku | General No-Fun's Best Moments

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Check out some of General No-Fun's best villain moments!:



Watch Kuu Kuu Harajuku on Nick Jr. (USA) and Nickelodeon (Greece)!

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Lip Sync Battle Shorties Halloween Special | Coming Soon | Trailer | Nickelodeon *Updated With Airdate & Time"

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Coming soon to Nick, it's the spookiest lip syncing competition ever, full of lip syncing that will make you SCREAM, SCRATCH and SPIN with DELIGHT! It'll be a night that will be totally FANG-TASTIC! It's Nickelodeon's Lip Sync Battle Shorties Halloween Special, hosted by Nick Cannon and JoJo Siwa, premiering Sunday 15th October 2017 at 7:00pm ET/PT as part of Nickelodeon's Tricked Out Weekend, only on Nick USA!:



Visit nick.com/halloween for more frighteningly good Halloween fun!

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Originally published: Sunday, October 01, 2017.

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‘Rainbow Kind of Day’ Music Video | Sunny Day | Nick Jr.

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Get ready to let your true colors shine with Sunny from Nickelodeon's brand-new animated preschool series, Sunny Day! Watch this music video to see tons of awesome hairstyles in a rainbow of colors! Learn the lyrics below so you can sing along with some of your favorite characters, Sunny, Rox, and Blair! To find more Sunny Day videos of kids songs, plus Sunny Day games for kids, visit the FREE Nick Jr. App or go to NickJr.com!



"Rainbow Kind of Day" Lyrics:

Make your life so colorful
Make your world so wonderful
Let the colors carry you away
Yellow, orange, scarlet, green
Peach and lilac, tangerine
Make each day a rainbow kind of day!
Make each day a rainbow kind of day!

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Preschoolers can watch full episodes online, play games, and discover silly surprises in the free Nick Jr. App and at NickJr.com: iTunes | Google Play | Amazon.

Stream Nick Jr. for free in the Nick Jr. App on Roku and Apple TV or download full episodes for offline viewing on iTunes or Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Nickelodeon&hl=en

You can also download premium apps featuring your child's favorite Nick Jr. shows on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon.

Draw and Play: iPhone | iPad | Google Play (Phone) | Google Play (Tablet) | Amazon

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How to Be Human #3: Crushing It! w/ Dayton Reyes | I Am Frankie | Nickelodeon

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Dayton Reyes (Nicole Alyse Nelson) is here to teach her android best friend how to be a little less … android-y. Check out the third in a series of three vlogs, “Crushing It!” With these tips, YOU’LL be crushing it with your crush in no time! Catch more I Am Frankie on Nickelodeon!



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'Party Like A Zombie' Spooky Mashup w/ School of Rock, The Thundermans, Henry Danger & More! | Nickelodeon

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All of your favorite ghouls and ghosts from Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, Henry Danger, The Thundermans, SpongeBob SquarePants and more are grooving to School of Rock’s Halloween hit ‘Party Like A Zombie!’ Who do you think has the scariest costume? Let Nick know in the comments on YouTube! Catch more Halloween hocus pocus on Nickelodeon!



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Spooky Town | Halloween 2017 Trailer | Nickelodeon Asia

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Remember, remember, this month of Spooktober! When the sun falls down, strange creatures abound, in search of little people who know not how to giggle! For those with no funny bone will all feel alone in this place Nick calls Spooky Town! Tune into spooktacular Halloween specials of all your favorite Nick shows, including Harvey Beaks, Sanjay and Craig, The Thundermans, ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, The Haunted Hathaways, Regal Academy, Fairly OddParents and The Loud House, all this Spooktober at 5pm (WIB) | 6pm (MY/PH/SG), only on Nickelodeon South East Asia!



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Power Rangers Ninja Steel | "Grave Robber" Sneak Peeks | Halloween Special | Nickelodeon USA

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To celebrate Nickelodeon USA premiering the brand-new Power Rangers Ninja Steel Halloween special, "Grave Robber", on Saturday 14th October 2017* at 12:00pm ET/PT as part of Nick's Tricked Out Weekend, the official Power RangersYouTube Channel has unveiled a fangtastic sneak peek preview from the brand-new PRNS episode, which you can watch in the spooktacular video clip below!:



In the brand-new Power Rangers Ninja Steel Halloween episode "Grave Robber" (#721), a Halloween board game leads the Rangers into Cosmo Royale’s (Campbell Cooley) trap where they must confront monsters they have already beaten! In Saban's super sneak peek, the Ninja Steel Rangers find a new board game to play for Halloween, but what will happen when they start the game?

UPDATE: To further celebrate the premiere of the brand-new Power Rangers Ninja Steel Halloween episode "Grave Robber" on 10/14, Nickelodeon USA has unveiled a second sneak-peek from the all-new episode, which you can watch here on Nick.com/NinjaSteel!


In Nick's super sneak-peek, titled "Roll The Dice!", the Rangers are in the middle of a REAL and intense board game! If they loose the game, bad things will happen to them!

Catch up now at nick.com/ninjasteel and on the Nick App!

Connect with Power Rangers:
Web - http://www.powerrangers.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/powerrangers
Twitter - http://twitter.com/PowerRangers
Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/powerrangers

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Mike O’Malley Looks Back on Hosting "Nickelodeon’s GUTS" 25 Years Later | NickSplat

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Some people might have forgotten that Mike O’Malley, who played Kurt Hummel’s dad and made you cry with his fatherly talks during six seasons of Glee, used to be a Nickelodeon game show host.


Photo: Getty Images

“I took the job very seriously,” O’Malley tells ET about hosting Nickelodeon's hit ‘90s sports competition series GUTS, now celebrating its 25th anniversary. O’Malley, 50, was 24 years old when he landed the job. “I looked at the part like I was playing the role of an older brother. Like a cool camp counselor. I loved working with the kids.”

Each episode filmed on Stage 21 at Universal Studios Florida featured three teenage athletes competing against each other in four "extreme" versions of athletic events. In the final round, they raced up a “mountain” called the Aggro Crag, later renamed to Mega Crag. The show aired on Nickelodeon during a tween programming block that also included Legends of the Hidden Temple and Nick Arcade.

“[Nickelodeon] started making their own programing,” O’Malley recalls. “They didn’t have all the animated [shows]. A lot of their programming was kids’ game shows and sports action shows.”

O’Malley, who is from Boston, moved to New York after graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1988 to study acting. “I did an acting showcase where casting agents come. I met an agent there. About six months later, I got cast as a host of a show called Get the Picture. We did [about] 120 episodes of that quiz show. Then I started touring around the country with Nickelodeon.”


That’s when he met GUTS creator Albie Hecht, who offered him the hosting gig on the show. “It was a fun time at Nickelodeon. Geraldine Laybourne, who used to run Nickelodeon, would talk about [how the network was] a place where kids are in charge. And so the programming was about them and their own wish fulfillment.”

Former contestants on the show included stuntwoman Anna Mercedes Morris (who coincidentally worked on an episode of Glee as Lea Michele’s stunt double), MLS soccer star Bobby Boswell, Hamilton West End actor Gregory Haney and Backstreet Boy AJ McLean. “I don’t remember [McLean]. I remember Jana Helms, who actually now is sadly paralyzed.”

Helms was known on GUTS as Jana “The Warrior” Waring. “She was an unbelievable athlete,” O’Malley remembers. Helms was part of the show’s second season one-hour special, Nickelodeon GUTS All-Stars, where three perfect-scoring players from the first season competed against each other. Five years later, while performing as a gymnast at Sea World in Orlando, she broke her neck and became paralyzed from the chest down. Helms is now married and living in Los Angeles.

After GUTS, O’Malley went on to host his own show called The Mike O’Malley Show, which aired for two episodes before it was canceled in 1999. In 2000, he starred as Jimmy Hughes on the CBS comedy Yes, Dear for six seasons, and had a role as Stuart on My Name is Earl. On both those shows he worked with producer and writer Greg Garcia. O’Malley has also spent the past 15 years expanding his career offscreen, with writing credits on Shameless and as creator of Survivor’s Remorse on Starz. Most recently, he and Garcia teamed up to co-write Escape to Margaritaville, an original story with songs by Jimmy Buffett set for Broadway in February 2018.

Mike recently recently reunited with GUTS referee Moira Quirk for a GUTS-themed episode of Nickelodeon's Sanjay and Craig.

As for GUTS, O’Malley, who still speaks passionately about the show that could be considered his breakthrough in the business, believes a reboot would do well on TV today. “I think they should do it again. Yes.”

NickSplat, Nickelodeon's destination for the most loved Nick content from the 1990s and beyond, temporarily revived GUTS in partnership with Mountain Dew in 2016 for the Moutain Dew's DEWggro Crag event in NYC.





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Floridan Actor Jayce Mroz Gets His Big Break On New Nickelodeon Series "I Am Frankie"

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Palm Springs, Florida: For about two months, Jayce Mroz, a G-Star School of the Arts student in Palm Springs, took classes in a classroom at Viacom International Studios in Miami because he was in the middle of filming a brand-new Nickelodeon series.


“There were six of us there,” Mroz, 16, recalled. “I was lucky I didn’t have to dis-enroll from (G-Star) or take online school. G-Star really helped me.”

Mroz was in Miami to film I Am Frankie, Nickelodeon's latest daily scripted series about a teenage experimental android who must hide her true identity to avoid an evil tech company from finding her. The show, originally produced as Yo Soy Franky by Nickelodeon Latin America in Colombia, currently airs daily at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon USA, and is currently rolling out on Nickelodeon channels and programming blocks globally.

In the series, which started airing in September, Mroz, an 11th-grader, plays Robbie Turnbull, sort of a misfit teenager who doesn’t have many friends.


The cast of Nickelodeon's I Am Frankie

“It was really weird because when I got the role in December, I couldn’t tell anybody,” Mroz told myPalmBeachPost. “That was really hard because it was the holidays. We traveled with family and everybody is asking, ‘How is your acting going?’ and I say. ‘It’s doing good,’ but in the back of mind, I’m saying, ‘I wish I could tell you I booked a TV show.’”

Mroz’s mother, Natalie, remembers getting the call when her son got the role.

“I was teaching and just started screaming without making any noise and jumping around the classroom,” she said. “He finally achieved the first step in his dreams.”

Mroz remembers auditioning three times — the main audition, the call back and the screen test.

“The first one is always the most nerve-wracking because it’s your first exposure you have with the casting director and the first time you have to make a good impact,” Mroz said.

A few weeks later, he got a call back.

“Now it’s down to me and 100 other kids,” Mroz said, laughing. “Same thing happens, you go in, they say ‘good job’ and then you leave.”

Then, Mroz got called for the screen test.

“It was me and one other actor,” Mroz said. “My first thought was, ‘How good is this kid?’ I thought it was going to be tough going after a role with another person who’s the same age as you and you looks like you.”

Mroz said he was expecting one person with a camera.

Instead, Mroz found three tables of network executives in suits.

“They were just looking at us while we were acting,” he said. “That’s scary, but I got some snickers out of people, then two weeks later I heard I got the job.”

Natalie, who’s fiftysomething, said it’s been an experience for her.

“It’s a little surreal to turn on your TV and there’s your kid on television,” she said.

For Mroz, the show is his first. He said he’s learned so much about teamwork.

“I wasn’t sure if I could do that,” he said. “It’s amazing how many people work on a scene that has two lines.”

Mroz actually started his career about seven years ago where he performed a monologue in front of agents and casting directors.

“I was so happy doing it,” he said, “I just felt like it was normal so I thought it would be cool to be on a TV show.”

Mroz’s favorite actors are Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks and Jim Carrey. He actually worked as an extra with Freeman on Dolphin Tale 2.

“One of my scenes was to read a pamphlet to my mom,” Mroz said. “In that scene, Morgan walks and sits down next to me and we have a nice conversation.”

Mroz finished shooting 20 episodes of the show’s first season in March. He said all his friends have been very supportive.

“No one is taking advantage of it,” he said. “I’m being treated like a normal kid, which is what I like.”

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Arnold And Grandpa Phil Can't Wait For NYCC | Sneak-Peek | Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie

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To celebrate Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie, Craig Bartlett, the creator of Nickelodeon's iconic '90s animated series Hey Arnold!, has shared a brand-new frame from Nickelodeon's upcoming brand-new two-part Hey Arnold! television movie in a post on his official Instagram profile page, @CraigBartlett! Check out Craig's latest super sneak-peek, featuring Arnold and Grandpa Phil, below, and let NickALive! know in the comments what you think is happening in the scene!:


Arnold and Grandpa can hardly believe that #thejunglemovie trailer drops FRIDAY at NYCC! I can't either! See you there!

Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie takes the kids on the field trip of a lifetime: action packed and full of adventure! They’ll join Arnold on a quest in which he’ll try to achieve his ultimate dream and finally find his missing parents. It all starts when Arnold and his classmates take a trip to San Lorenzo, South America, which, coincidentally, is the last place Arnold’s parents were seen! Their trip takes a turn when pirates kidnap Arnold and his friends! From there it’s one jungle hazard after another, and the gang must put their heads together to get out of danger. As the leader of the journey, Arnold must make sure he and his friends survive safely, all while working towards a reunion he’s dreamt of his whole life!


The two-hour TV movie features a storyline that picks up from where the original series ended in the "The Journal" in 2004 and resolves unanswered questions and plotlines-including Arnold finally getting answers about the whereabouts of his missing parents, Arnold's last name, and how Arnold feels about Helga! The movie is co-written and executive produced by the series’ original creator Craig Bartlett and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif.



Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie is slated to premiere on Nickelodeon USA on Thursday 23rd November 2017, as part of the networks Thanksgiving celebrations.

Online at nick.com/heyarnold, fans can find out more about the movie and watch exclusive video clips from the film.

Leading up to the movie, Nickelodeon will host a special panel titled “Hey Arnold!: From Hillwood to the Jungle!” at New York Comic Con 2017 that will feature creator Craig Bartlett and voice actors from the original series, including Lane Toran (Arnold), Francesca Marie Smith (Helga), Anndi McAfee (Phoebe) and Olivia Hack (Rhonda), as well as a exclusive sneak peek at the TV movie. The panel will take place on Friday, October 6th at 12:15 PM in the Hammerstein Ballroom (311 W 34th St). Nickelodeon will also release the first trailer for Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movieat NYCC 2017!

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Buck Vandella and Elmo, Cypress island. Happy #inktober the first! #sketchbook

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